Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.